NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) 19750008970: Normal probabilities for Vandenberg AFB wind components - monthly reference periods for all flight azimuths, 0- to 70-km altitudes

by: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)

Publication date: 1975-01-01

Topics: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS, WIND (METEOROLOGY), WIND PROFILES, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING, PROBABILITY THEORY, STATISTICAL ANALYSIS, TABLES (DATA), Falls, L. W.,

Collection: NASA_NTRS_Archive; additional_collections

Language: English

Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB), California, wind component statistics are presented to be used for aerospace engineering applications that require component wind probabilities for various flight azimuths and selected altitudes. The normal (Gaussian) distribution is presented as a statistical model to represent component winds at Vandenberg AFB. Head tail, and crosswind components are tabulated for all flight azimuths for altitudes from 0 to 70 km by monthly reference periods. Wind components are given for 11 selected percentiles ranging from 0.135 percent to 99.865 percent for each month. The results of statistical goodness-of-fit tests are presented to verify the use of the Gaussian distribution as an adequate model to represent component winds at Vandenberg AFB.